'carmageddon': Los Angeles Freeway Shuts Down

By JOHN ROGERS and DAISY NGUYEN, Associated Press
Sat, 07/16/2011 - 3:15am

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 10-mile stretch of one of the nation's busiest freeways has turned into a virtual ghost road....

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